For most of its nine years, Sci Fi has been little more than a cable-television repository for geek culture, the place where old science fiction shows went to die.
But stories about monsters and violence and worldwide cataclysms are not only not intrinsically empty; for decades they've been the unacknowledged saviors of television — a rare repository for some of the medium's most daring explorations of politics and sexual identity.
Television is now the chosen repository for ambitious dramatists with intelligent and idiosyncratic voices.
YouTube has also become a vast repository of video taken without permission from television shows and movies, not to mention home movies constructed — with nary a cent paid in royalties — from commercial music and imagery.
Outside the cautious world of newspapers and television, social media has become a repository for criticism and, recently, for recordings that some suggest are suppressed evidence of corruption.
As the suit proceeds, the discovery process could show how IMDb, a vast repository of movie and television information that has become Hollywood's quasi-official record book, compiles the facts and figures by which people in the entertainment industry are publicly defined.
The money would come from proceeds of the proposed payroll tax and from the central fund, which is the repository for revenue from the national television package and licensing.
But the two sides differ on the formula under which the money would be distributed and the amount that would come from clubs' local revenue and the amount that would come from the central fund, which is the repository for revenue from the national television contract and licensing.
The central fund is the repository for revenue from such sources as the national television package and licensing.
Producers are increasingly turning away from Broadway's traditional talent repositories and toward the ultimate mass-market medium -- television -- to help fill seats and the demanding lead roles previously saved for theater's most accomplished veterans.
Web sites tied to television cooking shows, magazines and food manufacturers abound, as do less formal repositories.
